"is the story of America's shoddy excuses for its inexcusable history of violence, told through the perspective of the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh-now 88 years old-and further filtered through the lens of filmmakers Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus. Through archival materials and modern interviews, they are the first to translate Hersh's storied career to film, which is both remarkable and not at all surprising."
"The three seem to share a working ethos, summed by Hersh's mantra: "You can't have a country that does this and looks the other way." It's easy to see how that statement resonates with Poitras, director of Citizenfour and All The Beauty And The Bloodshed , both of which thoroughly investigate specific ways the American government has knowingly failed us (by routinely carrying out mass surveillance and allowing pharmaceutical companies to reap massive profits from our pain, respectively)."
An examination centers on America's shoddy excuses for its violent past as seen through Seymour Hersh, an 88-year-old Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, and mediated by filmmakers Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus. Archival materials and modern interviews translate Hersh's career to film and underscore his refusal to stop exposing national wrongdoing. Hersh's working ethos is encapsulated by his mantra: "You can't have a country that does this and looks the other way." Hersh's background as the son of Jewish Eastern European immigrants and as a teenage worker in his father's dry cleaner is linked to his interpersonal skills and unorthodox reporting methods that yielded significant scoops.
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